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Question 1

What are the components of the THE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH?

Answer 1

Right Understanding
Right Thought
Right Speech
Right Action
Right Livelihood
Right Effort
Right Mindfulness
Right Concentration

Question 2

What are THE FIVE REMEMBERANCES (REFLECTIONS)

Answer 2

1. I am subject to old age; I am not exempt from old age.
2. I am subject to illness; I am not exempt from illness.
3. I am subject to death; I am not exempt from death.
4. I must be parted from everyone and everything dear and agreeable to me.
5. I am the owner of my karma. I will be the heir of whatever karma, good or bad that I do.

Question 3

What are the THE FIVE AGGREGATES (SKANDHAS)?

Answer 3

1. Form
   Your physical body— the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind.
2. Feeling
   The sensations you experience in your body, including all pain and pleasure.
3. Perception
   You have sense organs, and each of them has objects. Put them together—eye and light, nose and smell, etc.—and you have perception.
4. Mental formations
   All your concepts and thoughts.
5. Consciousness
   Awareness of Form, Feeling, Perceptions, Mental Formations.

Question 4

What are the THE SIX SENSE ORGANS

Answer 4

eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind

Question 5

What are THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS?

Answer 5

the existence of suffering
the cause of suffering
the cessation of suffering
the path that leads to the cessation of suffering

Question 6

What are THE SIX SENSE OBJECTS?

Answer 6

form, sound, smell, taste, touch, and objects of mind

Question 7

What are THE THREE GEMS

Answer 7

the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha

Question 8

What are THE SIX CONSCIOUSNESSESS?

Answer 8

1. sight
2. hearing
3. smell
4. taste
5. feeling
6. thought

Question 9

What are THE FIVE OBSTACLES OF MIND?

Answer 9

1. greed
2. hatred
3. ignorance
4. torpor
5. doubt

Question 10

What are THE THREE SEALS?

Answer 10

1. Emptiness
2. Signlessness
   3.Aimlessness

Question 11

What are THE FIVE PRECEPTS?

Answer 11

1. Do not kill.
2. Do not steal.
3. Do not engage in sexual misconduct.
4. Do not say untruthful things.
5. Do not use alcohol or any other stimulants.

Question 12

What are THE THREE POISONS?

Answer 12

1. Greed
2. Ignorance
3. Hatred

Question 13

THE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH

What is the first step - RIGHT VIEW?

Answer 13

A true understanding of how reality and suffering are intertwined.

Question 14

THE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH

What is the 2nd step - RIGHT THOUGHT?

Answer 14

The aspiration to act with correct intention, doing no harm.

Question 15

THE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH

What is the 3rd step - RIGHT SPEECH?

Answer 15

Abstaining from lying, and divisive or abusive speech.

Question 16

THE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH

What is the 4th step - RIGHT ACTION?

Answer 16

Acting in ways that do not cause harm, such as not taking life, not stealing, and not engaging in sexual misconduct.

Question 17

THE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH

What is the 5th step - RIGHT LIVELIHOOD?

Answer 17

Making an ethically sound living, being honest in business dealings.

Question 18

THE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH

What is the 6th step - RIGHT EFFORT?

Answer 18

Endeavoring to give rise to skillful thoughts, words, and deeds and renouncing unskillful ones.

Question 19

THE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH

What is the 7th step - RIGHT MINDFULNESS?

Answer 19

Being mindful of one’s body, feelings, mind, and mental qualities.

Question 20

THE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH

What is the 8th step - RIGHT CONCENTRATION?

Answer 20

Practicing skillful meditation informed by all of the preceding seven steps.